The artwork drawn by Mioko Ohnishi is remarkably soft and shoujo-like, perhaps to compliment the romantic themes of the story, and unlike the main manga adaptation the characters actually look like fifteen year olds, which makes the violent scenes all the more disturbing. Although primarily focused on Haruka and her feelings, the story also does an excellent job of further developing Yukie, who had the largest role of her friends in the original novel, through the conversations she has with Haruka. After the girls stumble upon a severely injured Shuya Nanahara, protagonist of the novel and object of Yukie's affections, we are given an insight into Haruka's feelings and anguish at the very real possibility of not only her own impending death, but the death of her love too. gay, and that she holds romantic feelings for Yukie. Haruka's narration reveals that she has recently come to realise that she is 'not normal', i.e. The central character in Angel's Border's first story is Haruka Tanizawa, the tall, athletic best friend of the dependable class representative Yukie Utsumi, who is responsible for gathering the girls in the lighthouse in the first place. Angel's Border is clearly set within the novel's universe (the 'teacher' is Sakamochi, not Kamon as it is in the manga) but those who have only read the manga adaptation will easily be able to understand what is going on.
The stories get deep inside the minds of two of the girls who were minor characters in the original novel, and shares with us their perception of their world and the horrific situation they have found themselves in.
end up doubting and eventually betraying each other, resulting in the violent death of all of them.īattle Royale: Angel's Border is a collection of two spinoff stories from this scene, written by the novel's original author Koushun Takami.
Taking refuge together in a lighthouse on the abandoned island that they have been sent to die on, the girls cling desperately to the hope that they will somehow be saved from the cruel game, only to Possibly the most memorable scene of the cult novel Battle Royale is the infamous lighthouse massacre, in which a close-knit group of female friends are pushed to the edge by the horror of finding themselves placed in the Program, a brutal military experiment that pits junior high school students against each other in a fight to the death. **This review contains spoilers for the original novel/manga of Battle Royale**
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